Hello my dear readers,
After all that we have discovered about chocolate this week here and here, I don’t know you but I would love a chocolate recipe ๐
Furthermore, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Why not surprise your Valentine with a super decadent softhearted chocolate cake or is called alsoย lava cake or molten chocolate cake, but who cares the name? the taste is heavenly delicious!
I ate a few times this wonderful chocolate cake at the restaurant and I always wondered how do you make such a magnificent dessert ๐ง
When I tried to make it at home I was surprised that it is a very easy dessert to make and very fast.
You will only need a few ingredients and the small ramekins or baking cups. I have at home different kind of ramekins, even heart shape ones ๐ but also muffin baking cups, so I use everything I have ๐ย and you may do it too ๐ If you don’t have them you may also find them on my Popsicle Society shop.
The only secret is to do it at the moment and eat it as soon as it is taken out of the oven, so that the heart remains soft … try it … you will be surprised and your Valentine too ๐… I recommend it to all gourmands, like me ๐
Ingredients for 7 mini softhearted chocolate cake
- 100 g of dark chocolate chips
- 100 g of butter
- 2 eggs
- 80 g of sugar
- 40 g of flour
- 3 tablespoon of water
- a pinch of salt
How to do it:
Melt the chocolate with the butter and the water. I’m using chocolate chips but you may use the normal dark chocolate for baking.
Transfer the melted chocolate to a bowl and let it cool.
Grease and flour the mini ramekins or baking cups.
Once the melted chocolate is cooled then add eggs, sugar, the sifted flour and the pinch of salt and mix well.
Fill the baking cups by half with the mixture.
Bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 220 degrees.ย The high heat will cook the softhearted chocolate cake around the edges and tops, leaving the insides soft.
Since the ovens are all different, if you’re not sure if are done, you may take out one and simply try it.
Carefully flip the freshly baked and warm softhearted chocolate cake upside down onto plates, sift a little bit of icing sugar on top and serve.
You may serve it with ice cream, fresh fruits, or even more chocolate sauce ๐ซ
AND YES, IT’S THAT EASY!
Your Valentine will be really pleased ๐ย ๐ย Enjoy it!
And if you don’t eat them all, don’t worry, once they cool down, they’ll maybe not have anymore the lava inside but will still remain amazingly moist!
Mini softhearted chocolate cake

Super easy, decadent mini softhearted chocolate cake.
Ingredients
- 100 g of dark chocolate chips
- 100 g of butter
- 2 eggs
- 80 g of sugar
- 40 g of flour
- 3 tablespoon of water
- 1 pinch of salt
Directions
- Melt the chocolate with the butter and the water.
- Transfer the melted chocolate to a bowl and let it cool.
- Grease and flour the mini ramekins or baking cups.
- Once the melted chocolate is cooled then add eggs, sugar, the sifted flour and a pinch of salt and mix well.
- Fill the baking cups by half with the mixture.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 220 degrees.ย The high heat will cook the softhearted chocolate cake around the edges and tops, leaving the insides soft. If you’re not sure if are done, you may take out one and simply try it.
- Carefully flip the freshly baked and warm softhearted chocolate cake upside down onto plates, sift a little bit of icing sugar on top and serve. You may serve it with ice cream, fresh fruits, or even more chocolate sauce.
Enjoy ๐ย ๐
All photo credit: Popsicle Society done with iPhone 11
Popsicle Society Shop
Wish you all a wonderful Valentine’s Day! And remember, Valentine’s Day can be everyday, love and respect is what we all need!
Oh my God! It looks super delicious. ๐คค๐
Thank you very much! ๐๐๐
Looks delicious. Ive never heard it refereed to as softhearted but it’s a great name – I like it much more than lava. Perfect for the sweetheart that melts your heart!
Thank you very much! Very appreciated! ๐๐๐ Exactly! Perfect for our half but not only ๐๐
That looks super yummy! ๐
Thank you very much Saania! ๐๐ธ๐
My pleasure!
I want some!!
I wish I could send you ๐๐
Ooh I love choc lava cake! Yum yum! And I love the presentation, pretty! Happy weekend, Ribana!
Thank you so much dear Mel! Iโm very glad you like it ๐๐๐ธ๐ Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Wish you a lovely week too ๐๐ธ
Wow…Looks scrumptious
Thank you very much! ๐ธ๐
That does look good, especially as it uses dark chocolate. You might like this earlier post of mine: https://derrickjknight.com/2015/10/25/chocolate-surprise-pudding/
Thank you very much Derrick! Thank you for sharing your post ๐
Yummy. There’s an Italian restaurant I like where I often have this cake. One of my faves.
Thank you very much! I donโt eat too often desserts but this is one of my favorites ๐๐
I’m an addict.
One of my favorites! And I love the name “softhearted”!
Thank you very much Dorothy! ๐๐
Looks super delicious!๐
I wanna try making it. 1 question though… For people who don’t eat egg, is there some other substitute for egg or can we skip it completely?๐
Thank you very much! Well the egg is the one that is keeping everything together but you may try to replace it with mashed banana, applesauce, regular yogurt, buttermilk…๐ Enjoy it! ๐๐
Thanks a lot for the tip๐
My pleasure ๐
OMG! Yes.
๐๐๐ซ enjoy it!
I love these little cakes but never knew how to make them. Thank you for this recipe!! I can’t wait to try it!
Thank you Michelle! Are so easy that youโll surprise yourself ๐๐ Enjoy them! ๐๐
Thank u ๐คฉ
Youโre welcome ๐
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That does look delicious! I’ll have to try it.
Thank you! Youโll love them ๐๐๐ซ
OH MY WORD!!!!!!!! This looks and sound absolutely heavenly. Thank you for the recipe!
Thank you very much Diane! Are heavenly delicious ๐๐
wow thank you for sharing, this lava cake looks delicious. I will try to make this at home ^^
Thank you very much! Iโm glad you like it! Enjoy it ๐๐๐ซ
Super delicious … what a recipe for a great treat I do see!
Thank you! ๐๐๐ซ
OMG!!!!! that looks decadently delicious! Happy Valentine’s Day indeed!
Thank you very much Jeanne! Happy day everyday ๐๐
You are very welcome. happy everyday to you as well. ๐
Hi Ribana this is a finger licking recipe, sure I will be try it !!! ๐
Hello dear Suni, thank you very much! Iโm glad you like it! Enjoy it! ๐คฉ
You know what? I am hungry!!! Hi Ribanna, This is so easy, I wish I have enough time this weekend to do this stuff and I will not fail to have fun, but doing something in kitchen needs a little dedicated time ๐ So don’t forget to have fun and Enjoy your valentine day safely, and I’m sure your family would love your hand work of delicious recipe. Don’t forget to name your cookies with your lovely bloggers name ๐ ๐ Have a beautiful day ๐ ๐ฅณ๏ธ๐
Hi Simon, yes, doing something in the kitchen always needs time! Luckily my recipes are pretty fast ๐ as I donโt have too much free time ๐คช
For my valentine day Iโll be in the office but some pancakes still I can do ๐๐
Enjoy your day Simon! ๐ธ๐๐คฉ
Dayum girl – that looks excellent:)
Very appreciated! ๐๐
Always a pleasure – how is ‘shop?’ going, l was showing it to Suze last night and introducing her to the concept.
Thank you Rory! โShopโ is in hibernation…it needs some attention and work…will need to decide soon if to continue or not with Shopify platform or not…Iโll need soon to upgrade my WordPress because Iโm almost at the limit of space so…some decisions to make ๐คช
So what have you found to be your biggest problem with the shop?
Biggest problem I guess is the platform itself…if I don’t do any work of promoting it, nobody can find it….so let’s say while on Amazon, people can search for products they want and may find your products even if you don’t promote them….but on Shopify, if you don’t promote it on other platforms nobody would know about your products….but since I’m dropshipping I’m not sure how other platforms are working….still need to do some serious research if I intend to continue….not sure for now….
Okay well that is interesting knowledge to have l feel sure the new series would be of interest to you too ๐
๐ always eager to find something new ๐
Mini softhearted chocolate cake with 26% cholesterol. I’m not gonna eat it but looks very ๐
Sometimes we need to treat ourselves well ๐๐
I tried this several years ago and had a terrible time with getting all of it to be straight. I eventually made some shorter, some longer and used that layout.
Will have to try this! They look amazing! ๐๐ป๐๐ป
Thank you very much! If you like chocolate, Iโm sure youโll love them ๐๐
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